I went to the local BCS meeting this evening - well, I don't go to the kirk much, so this is the only way I can feel like one of the younger ones, relatively that is.
I am being a little unfair, I suppose. Actually, we do get a few youngsters at Bogcaster BCS - it is just that they don't tend to come more than once.
Anyway, we were in the "what is wrong with the young of today?" mode of a Daily Mail editorial, discussing the next generation this evening. In particular why the lazy hooilgans are not taking IT at A Level. Some thought it was because it was too difficult, but I think it is in fact the very reverse.
Let's face it, any kid who has grown up net-savvy is going to know more about IT than anyone they are likely to meet this side of a whiteboard.
Bright kids drop out of A-Level IT, or have the sense not to do it in the first place, beaause all they are asked to do is write essays describing different types of database. Meantime, they are sitting in front of state-of-the-art desktops they built themselves writing code that can bring down the US defence network.
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